As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

Every director is completely different.

Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.

The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

Don't just count your days, make your days count.

That invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people.

What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit.

All that destiny garbage. Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you.

Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.

If you got to have a dream, you may as well dream big.

There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.